If
it please the eye of one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is, ‘Please
one, and please all.’
-Malvolio
Twelfth Night
Act III, scene iv, line 24
Please one, and please
all? That’s from a sonnet?
Well, I don’t know about that, but I do know that Malvolio is acting goofy
in this scene, with the thought that this is going to impress and win the heart
of Olivia. Of course, it’s not going to do any such thing, and she just thinks he’s
gone a little bit mad. Poor Malvolio.
This Please one, and please all line made me think of Mom's philosophy on pleasing people. I paraphrase: Ya can't please everybody so don't bother trying. She was not a Bardophile, but she was certainly a pragmatist.
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